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For me, it's pretty obvious that social media is being used to destabize and weaken Western democracies like the US and Britain.

I don't believe that the lurch to the Right we've seen--Brexit, Trump, etc.--are happening naturally.

Belfort cooperated with the FBI and got 4 years.

Holmes got 11 years.

The Mt. Gox guy was prosecuted in Japan.

The biggest Ponzi scheme in US history was Bernie Madoff's.

Mods probably merged multiple posts.

His crimes are closer to those of Bernie Madoff than, say, Jamie Dimon. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years.

As I read it[1], the plaintiffs allege that the government has overstepped its authority by using emergency powers to make new demands for information under threat of prosecution. There is a plausible argument for that position, and so a TRO is appropriate while the questions are resolved.

[1]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24440902-cryptoenerg...

> 18% of the U.S. population is functionally illiterate

N.B. This stat appears to pertain to English language literacy, not literacy per se. Some of those 18%ers might be reading Dante in the original Italian or Shakespeare in the original Klingon.

I don't see the problem you do.

SO is a Q&A based knowledge base. Questions are supposed to be somewhat open-ended prompts that inspire experts to write detailed and informative responses. The OP seems to be an excellent example this.

I've been contacted by collection agencies over an ER bill that I paid up front and in full. The system isn't even designed for that possibility.

> number = -number

They actually point this out when introducing the code snippet in the report.

And then after the snippet:

>> Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics of the most basic rules of computer programming.

It's been my impression over the years that = vs. == is one of the most common mistakes made in languages that use them. In which case, can it really be said to be less confusing?

> it said "= 0" rather than "== 0"

Why do so many programming languages have different equals/assigns operators?

There are languages that combine them and apparently don't have any problems. Is it something to do with being strongly vs. weakly typed?

After reading your link I'm not sure I see the problem you're pointing to.

I think I have better things to do than parse vague innuendo like that.

Honestly, this sounds like a conspiracy theory and/or an attempt to deflect criticism from the AI companies.

If the NYT goes under, why would its replacement fare any better?

> He also ordered Polychron to destroy all electronic and physical copies of the published work, “The Fellowship of the King,” by Sunday.

It sounds to me like the order applies to published copies rather than to his original manuscript.

I'm assuming that this is just more of Ken Paxton abusing the courts to boost his political profile.

Like that time he sued to overturn other states' elections.

This isn't even the first time[1] Microsoft has done something like this with the curl name. And, then as now, people bother Daniel with support requests.

[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershe...

>After all, why should I pay if others can steal without consequences?

I've had this exact thought while waiting to pay for my purchases and watching people carry armloads of stolen items out the front door.

A cucumber is a good, not a service.

Receiving a service is consideration.

Because you agree to the terms of using their service when you use their service.

The lawsuit asks for injunctive, not monetary, relief.

Meta is not being banned, though.

I never realized that Worf's weird chair with the round things was an actual chair.

The EU had already banned this dye.

At night it's called the moon.

If that were the only consideration, the kernel could be placed into the public domain.

Antitrust laws prohibit anti-competitive practices generally, not just literal monopolies.